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THE COPAN LEADERcorr/w/rr. nn. dr nr h'ciukc atwjnrt* jwac/irrJOY OF EXPECTATION.What woul<l we do In this world of oursWere It not for the dreams ahead?For i horns aru mixed with the bloomingflowers,No matter which palh we tread.The first aid to happiness Is thepleasure of expectancy. The younggirl has ro s ydreams of whather first ball willbo like—of herfirst beau, as well.The bride has Joy-ous expectationsof the happy lifewhich stretchesaway from the al-tar. The youngmother gathersher brood of babies about herknees quite for-getful of the cateand bother theymay have been toher, in the proudand happy expec-tations which her fancy maps out forthe future of this one and that one—a future in which they will have nocrosses, no burdens to bear, nostorms; only sunshine and fair weath-er. Kven the aged grandma, sluingpeacefully knitting In the chimney cor-ner, has her expectations—of meetingthose she has loved and lost; whohave gone on before.Men, too, know the sweets of ex-pectation quite as fully as do women.Deny it though he may, there isscarcely a man who has not his expec-tation of marrying and settling downafter he has taken his fling of life'sgayeties. He has his happy expecta-tion of a home from which he canshut out dull care and the world sworries; the expectation of a lovinglife who will come to the door tomeet him with a smile; of a troopof sturdy youngsters romping throughthe halls each eager to be first towelcome daddy.Expectation never ends in the hu-man breast. When the children ofhis brain fancies have become reali-ties—are young men in college—ex-pectation is even more keen in hisbreast, in their behalf. He drivesharder than ever at his 'business toaccumulate money to give each onea start. He has Joyful expectationsof seeing this one a professional man.that one a merchant and the otherupon fame’s highest pinnacle.This one may blunder, that onemay fall, and the other sidestep fromgrace, but his expectations neitherdroop nor fall. .They are ever buoy-ant. The patient in the last stages ofa fatal malady would succumb atonce without a struggle were it notfor that wonderful rainbow of hope—the Joyful expectancy of recovery.The physician, also, feels the thrillof expectancy in his breast—reward-ing him for his faithful performance01" duty. He will tell you, "Wherethere is life there is always hope."The lawyer pins his faith to expec-tancy to win no matter how many diffi-culties face him. This very faith heimbues others with, and the legal bat-tle Is won. t The artist from the op-eratic stage, the queen of the drama,the merry-hearted chorus girl, fairlylive upon their expectations of a gold-eu future. What would the shop girl’slife bo without that gleam—expecta-tion? It is ofttimes the ladder bywhich she mounts from obscurity towealth!Every human being may have his,or her, moments of despondency, butthe joy of expectancy will scatterthem. Keep the lamp of expectancyburning in your heart. You can, ifyou will, surmount every obstaclethrough the Joy of expectation!FLIRTATIONS ARE DANGEROUS.Love, sole lord and monarch of ItselfAllows no ties, no dictates but Its own.To that mysterious arbitrary powerReason points out and duty pleads Invain.The good-looking masher should notconsider all pretty women who do notflatly rebuke him fish for his net.It cannot be denied that the generalrun of women love to be admired.They are not averse to knowing thatmasculine eyes are bent upon themwith admiration. They are sure thattheir new gown is becoming and theirnew hat makes a picture for them.They may drop their eyes demurely asa Hush of pleasure deepens the rosebloom in their cheeks, but the mashermustn’t take this Indication as a coveracceptance of his attentions.Should he become bold and attemptto get Into conversation, he may findthat he has run up against a periloussnag. All women do not meet the situ-ation in the same way. The vain youngmiss who was so delighted by his ad-miration comes quickly to her senses.While one will ignore him altogether,another goes Into hysterics. Men whohave wives, daughters and sisters areapt to handle the dandy unmercifullyand without gloves.The masher who would make a preyof pretty, unprotected women soonfinds that she discovers protectorswilling to fight her battles wllilnjlyfor her. The minions oj the law are notless merciful than the men who de-fend outraged virtue against the mash-er. Seldom or never is the youngwoman's story doubted, no matter bowmuch the masher denies the truth.Wise men admire unknown womenfrom afar.Once give a man the name of beinga flirt, and the bad name will followhim. He must not consider the excuseplausible that he was nupping on atrain and his head nodded unintention-ally in the girl's tllrection. He mayadmit that he was Indiscreet enought< smile at her, believing that a poorexcuse is better than none. This willbut fret the girl’s irate sweetheart orbrother.The man who Is given to flirting maypass through a score of such affairswithout harmful results. But soon orlate the Girting habit will bring himto grief. One may bo disposed to belenient to the very young fellow IfIt is his first afTair. But everyonelikes to see the seasoned, bold, elder-ly masher get bis Just deserts—sound thrashing, a fine, or both.A word of warning should bo whis-pered into the ears of the pretty girl.Wnen she becomes aware that an un-known man is attempting to attracther attention by ogling or othermeans, the wise maiden should pay noattention to him. Even the boldestof his kind desists from annoying thewoman who does not encourage himby glancing in his direction to seeif he's still looking.WHAT WOMEN TALK ABOUT.And then she was aware of. first,That she, not knowing it, had nursedIlls memory till It grew a p irt—A heart within her very heart.When a group of young women aretalking together, if there’s a bride jamong them she drags in somethingabout her husband whether it fits intothe conversation or not. Her blushand the eagerness with which she saysit evidence the subject she's fond oftalking about.The seasoned married women havelong since found It tedious and of nopleasure in dragging their husbandsinto their conversation. He is an oldstory to most of them, while othersare glad to forget for a few brief mo-ments that there Is such a personage.What, then, do they talk about?Their children, of course! Each onewill tell you proudly that her boy orgirl is at the head of the class. Whenyou talk of a score or more of suchwomen, whose children all go to thesame school and belong to that par-ticular class, if they’re all at the head,how many heads it must have to itand no foot to stand on! The spinsterswhen they gut their heads togetherdiscuss "him.”They start in bravely over their af-ternoon tea, or bridge, to discuss, art,literature or music. But they alwayswind up by dragging some forlornbachelor or widower info the topic ofconversation. If not their own broth- ]er who is talked of It is somebody jelse's brother. They are veritableencyclopedias on who’s single or, ifhe's engaged how many flirtations orserious love affairs he's had. whetherhe's matrimonially inclined, or Is notto be caught in the marriage net.When you see a bevy of older girlscrowding close together, looking mys-terious, each with r\ finger on her lipsand a hand over her heart, they arepromising faithfully on their word ofhonor that they will never tell whatone of their number is confiding tothem about her beau. One after anoth-er discloses her love affair. One beauis sulky; another too cold; while yetanother is too affectionate; some oth- !er one flirts; still another makes life |uncomfortable by his Jealousy, being jquite as bad as the next beau under Jdiscussion who keeps her guessing as !to what his intentions are.By the time these young women are Ithrough their confabs, each fellowtalked about has had his peculiarities jpretty well threshed out. Dances. 1balls, skating, sledding, barn frolics,surprise parties and all the pleasuredknown to sweet innocent girlhood aredragged into conversation as a sideissue. What girls do not learn by com-paring notes isn’t worth knowing. Man—man—man's ears must burn continu-ously.Why One Sneezes."Tlmre is more than one cause forsneezing, and persons may differ intheir susceptibility to them," says a jspecialist in diseases of the nose andthroat“A bright line will cause some per- 1sons to sneeze, the pollen of certain Jplants will affect others, and most ;people are likely to sneeze in thepresence of dust. Such sneezing is !due to superficial irritation."The sneeze caused by the effectof cold is different. It is an attemptof nature to cure you. She makesyou sneeze for the same reason that ;she makes you shiver—to generateheat for warming the blood and pre-venting you from taking more cold—to help to relieve the cold you have.“The sneezing from cold Is not anact of the r.ose alone, this beingmerely the part of the body where itexplodes. It is an act of the entirebody, during which every musclegives a jump. The body is affectedby a spasmodic effort to warm theentire system and throw off cold."“Ruling Spirit Strong.”“I was up in Maine one winter ona hunting trip, with a fellow who was |crazy to quit smoking, but whocouldn't," writes Tom Q. “He hadtried time and again to break away,but the vice had him in a stranglehold. One morning as he was fixingto go out for the day i slipped allthe matches out of his pockets, thengave him a big cigar, and got him tolight it—1 knew it would last him foran hour, and by that time he wouldbe so far from camp that he wouldn'tturn back for matches. That after- 1noon he returned with three fingersfrozen, and half dead—for a smoke.He froze his fingers trying to start atire with a piece of ice, using it as aburulug*glass."Mrs. Hep's Sayings.“They’s so many ways o' doin' theright things." mjirmured Mrs. Jona-than Hep as she tearfully looked aftera pious frieud, "thet sometimes 1wonder ef th’ Almighty is gonna giveeverybuddy thet does ’em a crown— !er whether he ain't gonna have Borne !opinion 'bout th'way they’s did.—Pitts- jburgh Dispatch.Houston “Take Out."A Houston thief sliced the seat ofa Main street pedestrian's breeches !out, taking with It the pistol pocket lwhich contained a pocketbook with !1207 in it. It strikes us that this was ja delicate and skillful operation, em- jbarrassing as it must have been to !the victim.—Houston Post.SAMBy EDWARD B. CLARK.N ONE building during the yearPH IP"! endlne June 30- 1915. Uncle Sam\ti> >a made thirty and a half billion dollars..X Ida This money factory is called the bu-reau of engraving and printing.1 ncle Sara is the head of the corpo-ration which is actively engaged Inthe production of wealth, and he haswith him as other members of thefirm about oue hundred million nephews andnieces.This governmental factory produces papermoney, bonds, revenue, postage and customstamps, checks, drafts and all the important docu-ments printed from engraved plates. The direc-tor of the bureau of engraving and printing isJoseph E. Ralph. He might be called the foremanof the greatest money-making shop in the UnitedStates of America and perhaps in the world.From Director Ralph's own words we learn some-thing specific about the activities of this big shopof the capital city:“The daily output of United States notes, goldand silver certificates and national bank notes, istwo and one-quarter million notes, having a facevalue of nine million dollars and weighing overthree and a half tons. If laid out flat they wouldcover nine acres, and if placed end to end thedaily output would make a chain two hundred andfifty miles long.Each day forty million postage stamps aremanufactured, which would cover approximatelyseven acres, or make a chain of stamps six hun-dred and twenty miles long. The value of eachday’s stamp output is nearly seven hundred andfifty thousand dollars. Six hundred employees areengaged in stamp manufacture. Fifty-one differentkinds of postage stamps, in denominations fromone cent to five dollars, are made for the UnitedStates and its insular possessions. They are print-ed in fifteen distinctive colors."Another important part of the bureau’s workis internal revenue stamps, through which an an-nual income of over five hundred million dollars iscollected for Uncle Sam. These stamps are oflarger size than postage stamps, and while thedaily output Is only twenty million stamps, theywould cover twenty acres if spread out in singlesheets, and they weigh six and a half tons. Morethan three hundred different varieties are issued."In Uncle Sam's workshop Is made all the papermoney for the United States government. Thismeans that every man who has a dollar bill In hishand, or who is lucky enough to have a bill oflarger denomination, may know of a certaintythat its origin was in a factory situated at thecorner of Fourteenth and C streets, S. W., in thecity of Washington, D. C.And speaking of counterfeits, there is a thingof marked interest which might be said. Thebureau of engraving and printing was organizedunder an act of July 11, 1862. From that day tothis the government has done its own work. Ithas employed the most skillful engravers that Itcan find and It is a matter of pride today to thisgovernment that never in the history of the bu-reau lias one of its employees been engaged In thework of counterfeiting. It is true that counter-feiting goes on occasionally In different placesthroughout the United States, but in the hundredsof arrests which have been made of men andwomen engaged in the work, nut one ever hadbeen in the employment of the government, andnot one was found to be in collusion with any ofUncle Sam’s workmenConcerning the matter of engraving, DirectorRalph of the bureau has had this to eay:"The engraving division is the oomer stone ofthe bureau and the bulwark of our securities. Iuthis division every form of security has Its origin,ami the most artistic and skilled engravers thatthe world produces are employed here."Steel engraving is the perfection of art as ap-plied to securities; it differs from painting andsculpturing, inasmuch as the engraver who carveshis work on steel plates must deliberately studythe effect of each infinitesimal line. Free hand,with a diamond-pointed tool, known as a graver,nided by a powerful magnifying glass, he carvesaway, conscious that one false cut or slip of histool, or miscalculation of depth or width of linewill destroy the artistic merit of his creation,and weeks or months of labor will have been invain.precious freight about onemillion dollars In papermoney It Is In the treas-ury department that thesheets of four notes eachare recounted by five dtf- jferent persons. After thisis done the red seal of the |register of the treasury isstamped upon them. Thena cutting machine sepa- jrates each sheet into four inotes. Then one thousand jsheets become four thou- 1sand bills and then the jmoney once more is icounted by several ex- jperts.Money which Is worn by !use is sent back to thetreasury department forredemp tion. Now, ofcourse, for every bill !which is received a new |bill of like denomination jmust be issued. So it isthat several more countsmust be made in order toguard against the perad- jventure of an error. Thecounters invariably arewomen, as they are be- !lieved to be much moreaccurate at the work than •men. About a million dol-lars a day Is received bythe treasury for redemp-tion purposes. In on-s ofthe rooms of the treasury |there is what is calleda macerater in which canceled bills are destroyed.The macerater is a great big potlik? receptaclemade of steel. In its Interior are knives set close-ly together. They revolve through water, whichwets the bills, and grind them into fine pulp.About a million dollars a day is thus destroyed,but, of course, it must be understood that anothermillion takes its place.The bureau of engraving and printing, to whichwe will return from the treasury department, is anew structure. It has been occupied only sincethe spring of 1914. The officials made every effortto erect a building on lines which would improvethe welfare of the employees and Increase theirefficiency standards. The hygienic conditions areof the best. Uncle Sam has found that where theconditions are right employees give in return theirbest physical efforts, and. therefore, the moneywhich is spent to make proper their surroundingsis money well spent. Director Ralph says plainlythat the employees in the old building were com-pelled to work under hygienic conditions "thatwere criminal and such as should not have beenpermitted by the government.” Further he says;“Had a private corporation operated and main-tained its plant under like conditions the attentionof the authorities no doubt would have been calledto it with a view to having these conditionschanged, perhaps to the extent of closing up thefactory."In the building the government has provided forco-operative lunchrooms. It has furnished thenecessary fixtures, kitchen utensils, heat, lightand fuel, while the employees have organizedthemselves Into a co-operative society, assessingeach member a nominal sum as a membership feeto create a fund necessary to commence business.The society has its officers and appoints a boardto superintend the conduct of the business, pur-chase the necessary food and cook it, and serve itto the employees at cost.There is a special emergency hospital In thebureau of engraving and printing, with separatewards for men and women. It is finely equippedand an experienced physician is on duty at alltimes, so that injured or sick employees may re-ceive immediate attention. Of course, this treat-ment is in the nature of first aid, the afflicted onesbeing sent as quickly as possible either to theirhomes or to the city hospitals.Uncle Sam makes a lot of money. He doesn'tpay high salaries to either the men or the womenwho help him make it. The salary figures arewhat might be called comfortable, perhaps, aridnothing more. So it is that some hundreds ofpeople daily In Washington handle more moneythan a millionaire sees in a year, and yet they arenot allowed to use any of it for themselves. Fa-miliarity, however, breeds contempt, and it is saidthat the government's employees who finger for-tunes every day never have any itching desire tcclose their hands upon wealth and attempt tomake way with iLAS TO FEEDING BABIES.in a discussion at a recent meeting of the NewY'ork Academy of Medicine on severe diarrheawith acidity of the stomach, Dr Abraham Jacobisaid one cause of it was excessive feeding of fats.He also urged physicians to stop prescribing milksugar. He himself never used it, because he con-sidered babies got enough of it in.their milk foodsAnd he said milk should not be given without bar-ley or oatmeal water.COPYRIGHT IY VrSTERN NEVSPUKR UNIONS-VA BOUT NINE MIL-n LION DOLLARSIN CURRENCY ISPRODUCED EVERYDAY AT THE GREATNEWPLANTOFTHEBUREAU OF EN-GRAVING ANDPRINTING ATWASHINGTON"In no other form of printing can the beautifulsoft and yet strong effects In black and white beobtained as in steel engraving. The introduc-tion of cheap mechanical process work has super-seded the beautiful creations of our master en-graver commercially, and now we find the artlimited to the engraving of securities as appliedin the government's bureau of engraving andprinting."• In the engraving division of the big shop thework is so divided and classified that the engrav-ers individually become skilled tn some particularbranch of the art. Therefore, It Is that they areclassified as portrait, script, square letter andornamental engravers. When the classificationand division have been made each workman ismade to confine himself to his own specialty, andso ft is that he becomes extraordinarily expertThe result of (his system is that not only betterexecution is secured, but a much greater amountis turned out in a given time, and what, of course,is of mueh greater importance, increased safetyfor Uncle Sam's belongings is obtained.Everything which Is issued from the engravingdepartment of Uncle Sam's bureau combines evi-dences of the individual skill and characteristics ofa number of men. Inasmuch as the handiworkof several men appears upon each plate, it readilycan be understood how difficult a thing it is forany one engraver to make a perfect reproductionof one of these plates. The combination of differ-ent styles of workmanship, all excellent, on adingle plate makes counterfeiting one of the mostdifficult things possible.In the halls of the bureau specimens of thework are to be seen and examples of the moneyare shown in different stages of the progress ofthe work. No one is allowed to see the engravers attheir work. It is absolutely necessary that theplates should be guarded against theft, and so itIs that they are under watch all through daylighthours, and at night they are safely placed withingreat vaults. One curious thing is to be noted,the government never prints from the originalplate. A duplicate of it is made and this is usedfor the printing, if thts were not done and some-thing should happen to the plate first made, Itsplace would have to be taken by a new one, andeven If the skill of the engraver should produceone almost exactly like the original. It would atbest be only a copy of it, and anything that wasprinted from the new plate would In a way be acounterfeit, provided, of course, the original platehad been used for printing purposes.Visitors to the bureau are shown the printing ofthe notes There are six or seven hundred em-ployees engaged in this work. The paper is a silk-fiberod material and the process of its manu-facture is safeguarded, because it must be kept asa-trade secret. Anyone who is found w ith paperof this kind in his possession, or an imitation of it,is a violater of the law.All of the printing is done on hand presses. Aman with a woman assistant are at each press.There are four notes to each sheet, and eachpressman turns out about five hundred sheets aday printed on one side only. A most carefulcount is kept of the sheets. The counting is doneby several persons, and after it Is done the notesare sent to numbering machines, where blue Inkis used to mark the series letter and each note'suumber.Every day In the year except Sunday a steelconveyance goes from the bureau of engraving andprinting to th treasury department, carrying as itsBlondes Again happyChemical blondes are giving vent to their Joy.Peroxide prices are coming down. Now for thebloride tresses again, the golden, shimmeringlocks, the flowing masses of yellow hair of yester-year. Show girls, who have in anguished silenceseen their ^alr turn back to its original raven hue,can shake off that feeling of despair. Forget theanguish which beset their hearts when they roseeach morning to find, by the aid of the mirror,there was another dark streak tn their goldenhair. Not one of them will be forced to remaini brunette against her will. Great Britain hascome to the rescue of the harassed blonde. Pityhas softened the heart of the war office. Theyhave raised the ban on the export of peroxide ofhydrogen to America and the antiseptic will here-after be shipped in sufficient quantities to insurean adequate supply for even the most ambitiousof blondes. Because of the lifting of the ban.within 30 days the price has decreased uutll it isnow eight dollars a gross and still dropping.Trouble Is Their Meat."I never knew a man yet who wanted to listento other people's troubles.""Then I guess you’ve never known any lawyers."Drawback.Schools In the trenches Is the latest innovationof war carried In the reports. The whole war inall its variations has been educational from thestart. The main drawback to its value Is the un-certainty of graduating Into a graveyard or ahospital.America's Gold Production.The value of new gold added to the home supplyfrom mills and smelters operating on domesticores (including those of Alaska, the Philippines,and Porto Rico) In 1915 was practically $99,000,-000. This shows the substantial increase ol$4,359,300 over the preceding year.Time it! Pape’s Diapepsin end*all Stomach misery in fiveminutes.Do some foods you eat hit back—taste good, but work badly; fermentInto stubborn lumps and cause a sick,sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr. orMrs. Dyspeptic, Jot this down; Pape'sDiapepsin digests everything, leavingnothing to sour and upset you. Therenever was anything so safely quick, socertainly effective. No difference howbadly your stomach is disordered youwill get happy relief in five minutes,but what pleases you most is that itstrengthens and regulates your stom-ach so you can eat your favorite foodswithout fear.You feel different as soon as "Pape’sDiapepsin" comes in contact with thestomach—distress just vanishes—yourstomach gets sweet, no gases, no belch-ing, no eructations of undigested food.Go now, make the best investmentyou ever made, by getting a large fifty-cent case of Pape’s Diapepsin from anystore. You realize in five minutes howneedless it is to suffer from indiges-tion, dyspepsia or bad stomach. Adv.A man is sometimes his own worstenemy, but he is more likely to be hisown best friend.For lame back use Hanford's Bal-sam. Rub it on and rub It In thor-oughly. Adv.Most of the crazy people we knowhave managed to sidetrack the asylumso far.To keep clean and healthy take Dr.Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulaisliver, bowels and stomach.—Adv.Our idea of a mean man is one whowaits until Saturday night to have hishair amputated.DON'T GAMBLEthat your heart's all right. Makesure Take “Renovine"—a heart andnerve tonic. Price 50c and $1.00— Adv.To remove superfluous hair sendyour well-filled mattress to he doneover by a tricky upholsterer.THE BLUE THAT'S TRUE.Red Cross Ball Blue gives to clothesa clear, dazzling white, whiter thansnow, not a greenish yellow tinge likecheap bottle blue. Buy Red Cross BallBlue for next washday. You will behappily surprised. Large package atyour grocers. 5 cents.—Adv.Overheard.He—Do you like caviar?She—Never heard him; but I justadcre Caruso.—Boston Evening Tran-scriptGRANDMA USED SAGE TEATO DARKEN HER GRAY HAIRShe Made Up a Mixture of Sage Teaand Sulphur to Bring Back Color,Gloss, Thickness.Almost everyone knows that SageTea and Sulphur, properly compound-ed, brings back the natural color andlustre to the hair when faded, streakedor gray; also ends dandruff, itchingscalp and stops falling hair. Yearsago the only way to get this mixturewas to make it at home, which ismussy and troublesome. Nowadays,by asking at any store for "Wyeth’sSage and Sulphur Hair Remedy," youwill get a large bottle of the famousold recipe for about 50 cents.Don’t stay gray! Try it! No onecan possibly tell that you darkenedyour hair, as it does it so naturallyand evenly. You dampen a sponge orsoft brush with it and draw thisthrough your hair, taking one smallstrand at a time, by morning the grayhair disappears, and after another ap-plication or two, your hair becomesbeautifully dark, thick and glossy.—Adv.Not Very Strong.Gerald—I wouldn't harm a fly.Geraldine—Y’ou couldn't if it werban able-bodied fly.MEAT CLOGS KIDNEYSTHEN YOUR BACK HURTSTake a Glass of Salts to Flush Kid-neys If Bladder Bothers You—Drink Lots of Water.No man or woman who eats meatregularly can make a mistake by flushtng the kidneys occasionally, says awell-known authority. Meat formsuric acid which excites the kidneys,they become overworked from thestrain, get sluggish and fall to filterthe waste and poisons from the blood,then we get sick. Nearly all rheu-matism, headaches, liver trouble, ner-vousness, dizziness, sleeplessness andurinary disorders come from sluggishkidneys.The moment you feel a dull ache tnthe kidneys or your back hurts or ifthe urine is cloudy, offensive, full ofsediment, irregular of passage or at-tended by a sensation of scalding, stopeating meat and get about four ouncesof Jad Salts from any pharmacy; takea tablespoonful in a glass of waterbefore breakfast and in a few daysyour kidneys will act fine. This fa-mous salts is made from the acid ofgrapes and lemon juice, combinedwith Iithia, and hi) been used forgenerations to flush and stimulate thekidneys, also to neutralize the acidsIn urine so it no longer causes irrita-tion, thus endipg bladder weakness.Jad Salts is Inexpensive and cannotInjure; makes a delightful efferves-cent lithla-water drink which everyoneshould take now and then to keep the| kidneys clean and active and the bloodpure, thereby avoiding serious kidneycomplications.—Adv.Not Indulging.Yjuth—Love Is intoxicating.Old Bach—I’m on the water wagon.| —Boston Evening Transcript